2. STL components for generic programming

• Major STL components are

  • Containers are objects such as vector, list, map

  • Iterators are objects behaving like pointers that define ranges inside containers

  • Algorithms are fundamental data manipulation tasks: sort, count, copy, reverse, etc.

• Containers and iterators are C++ objects

• Algorithms are C++ functions

• STL facilities work correctly with any data type, because they are template -based.

• An animation of STL components helps to visualize how STL components interact at runtime.